Plummer published his edition of Bede’s Historical Works, the first critical edition since Smith’s, and "the very first which exhibits in an apparatus criticus the various readings of the MSS. Their text "reproduces exactly the Moore MS." which they collated with some other Cambridge MSS. Lumby together edited Books III and IV with excellent notes in 1878. and succeeding editors, Stevenson (1841), Giles (1842), Hussey (1846), the editor in the "Monumenta Historica Britannica" (1848), Moberly (1869), Holder (1882), base their work mainly on Smith’s. collated with three others, of which two were eighth century MSS. It was the first critical edition, the text being based on the Moore MS. Smith’s edition in 1722 marked a new era in the history of the book. A number of editions followed in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries the first in England was published by Abraham Whelock at Cambridge in 1643-4. The earliest editions were printed on the Continent the "editio princeps" is believed to date from 1475. We are thus brought very near to our author, and may have more than in most cases the assurance that we have before us what he actually meant to say. and Cotton, Tiberius A, xiv, point to a common original which cannot be far removed from Bede’s autograph.
dating from the eighth century (the century in which Bede died), the Moore MS.
He has been the first to collate the four oldest MSS., besides examining numerous others and collating them in certain passages. Plummer’s Introduction to his edition of Bede’s Historical Works. A detailed account of these, as well as of a great number of other manuscripts, will be found in Mr.
(Cambridge), so called, because, after being sold by auction in the reign of William III, it came into the possession of Bishop Moore, who bequeathed it to the University of Cambridge Cotton, Tiberius A, xiv Cotton, Tiberius C, ii and the Namur MS. There are, it has been estimated, in England and on the Continent, in all about 140 manuscripts of the "Ecclesiastical History." Of these, four date from the eighth century: the Moore MS.
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